Friday!

• the Bear

  6 Jun 03, 18:07

  you'll be fine if you remember these...
  
  TEN THINGS PARENTS MUST REMEMBER
  
  Children are not pets.
  
  The life they actually live, and the life you perceive them to be living, are not the same.
  
  Don't take what your children do too personally.
  
  Don't keep scorecards on them - a short memory is useful.
  
  Dirt and mess are a breeding ground for well-being.
  
  Stay out of their rooms after puberty.
  
  Stay out of their friendships and love-life unless invited in.
  
  Don't worry that they never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
  
  Learn from them; they have much to teach you.
  
  Love them long; let them go early
  
  

  Originally posted by skinnybeanie:

  the young kids nowaways very different from my generation. Sometimes it scares me to think how my future kids will behave...

• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:07

  Originally posted by sillyme:

  God answered my prayers by making u 2 stay

  next time if my hubby late, shall pray for u to stay too.
• sillyme

  6 Jun 03, 18:07

  

  Originally posted by skinnybeanie:

  ya lah... will accompany u k?
  
  

• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:08

  Originally posted by sillyme:

  my unit is doing ndp this year, they offered me preview tickets.. but i didn't do anything.. then just now gave my colleague my ic number so he can apply for it

  sigh... you should have lend me your ic number..
  shall ask blurgirl next monday
• the Bear

  6 Jun 03, 18:08

  nope... haven't watched one in 17 or 18 years already even on tv.. not about to start
  
  

  Originally posted by skinnybeanie:

  yup, hanging around..
  just applied for NDP tickets. U applying?

• sillyme

  6 Jun 03, 18:08

  haha... u only have to ask (me) and it shall be answered

  Originally posted by skinnybeanie:

  next time if my hubby late, shall pray for u to stay too.

• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:09

  Originally posted by the Bear:
  you'll be fine if you remember these...
  
  [b]TEN THINGS PARENTS MUST REMEMBER
  
  Children are not pets.
  
  The life they actually live, and the life you perceive them to be living, are not the same.
  
  Don't take what your children do too personally.
  
  Don't keep scorecards on them - a short memory is useful.
  
  Dirt and mess are a breeding ground for well-being.
  
  Stay out of their rooms after puberty.
  
  Stay out of their friendships and love-life unless invited in.
  
  Don't worry that they never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
  
  Learn from them; they have much to teach you.
  
  Love them long; let them go early
  [/b]

  not easy to do so when one becomes a parent...
• sillyme

  6 Jun 03, 18:09

  aiya... should have told me earlier...

  Originally posted by skinnybeanie:

  sigh... you should have lend me your ic number..
  shall ask blurgirl next monday

• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:10

  Originally posted by sillyme:

  

  u can change your nick to greenbean liaoz
• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:11

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  nope... haven't watched one in 17 or 18 years already even on tv.. not about to start
  

  i dun like to watch it on TV, prefer to be there.
  It's a totally different experience. I always feel very very proud to be a Singaporean when there.
• the Bear

  6 Jun 03, 18:11

  a couple years ago, kena from the clerical staff coz i threw away 4 preview tickets
  
  don't even know why they were mailed to me...
  
  

  Originally posted by skinnybeanie:

  sigh... you should have lend me your ic number..
  shall ask blurgirl next monday

• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:11

  Originally posted by sillyme:

  aiya... should have told me earlier...

  aiya... i now then remember mah.... old liaoz
• sillyme

  6 Jun 03, 18:11

  it's hard.. mixing with school boys every saturday.. i understand how the parents feel.. the kids' life are also more demanding.. not like our time

  Originally posted by skinnybeanie:

  not easy to do so when one becomes a parent...

• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:12

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  a couple years ago, kena from the clerical staff coz i threw away 4 preview tickets
  
  don't even know why they were mailed to me...
  

  if i knew you by then, i would have scolded you too!
  Lang fei!!!
• the Bear

  6 Jun 03, 18:12

  i'm not one for choreographed rejoicing..
  
  i'd feel so out of place and out of sorts there...
  
  

  Originally posted by skinnybeanie:

  i dun like to watch it on TV, prefer to be there.
  It's a totally different experience. I always feel very very proud to be a Singaporean when there.

• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:13

  Originally posted by sillyme:

  it's hard.. mixing with school boys every saturday.. i understand how the parents feel.. the kids' life are also more demanding.. not like our time

  my sis is 26 yrs old this year.. behave exactly like those kids. I see already also vomit blood, not to mention if that's my kid..
• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:14

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i'm not one for choreographed rejoicing..
  
  i'd feel so out of place and out of sorts there...
  

  no lah, when there in the stadium, the rejoicing is not choreographed... only the performers are choreographed.
• the Bear

  6 Jun 03, 18:15

  parenting isn't easy.. that's why we have so many screwed up people around...
  
  i'm pretty screwed up in my own way.. my folks never followed a lot of them and my sister and i had and still have to fight for our own independence and to defend our right to live our own lives... it's taken many many years... and we've been scarred badly...
  
  these 10 things may not be easy, but they are vital.. especially when you remember what's at stake.. your child.. you will find the strength somehow
  
  

  Originally posted by skinnybeanie:

  not easy to do so when one becomes a parent...

• sillyme

  6 Jun 03, 18:17

  
  
  STOMACHACHE!!! must say goodbye first if i don't see u 2 later
• the Bear

  6 Jun 03, 18:18

  oh dear.. must be the hum chee peng or whatever he ate
  
  

  Originally posted by sillyme:

  
  
  STOMACHACHE!!! must say goodbye first if i don't see u 2 later

• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:21

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  parenting isn't easy.. that's why we have so many screwed up people around...
  
  i'm pretty screwed up in my own way.. my folks never followed a lot of them and my sister and i had and still have to fight for our own independence and to defend our right to live our own lives... it's taken many many years... and we've been scarred badly...
  
  these 10 things may not be easy, but they are vital.. especially when you remember what's at stake.. your child.. you will find the strength somehow
  

  well, can't really blame the parents for the screwed up pple we have around us.
  Some kids are just tough to handle.
  
  send me the 10 "commandments" again when i'm pregnant k?
  
• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:21

  Originally posted by sillyme:

  
  STOMACHACHE!!! must say goodbye first if i don't see u 2 later

  alamak!!
• the Bear

  6 Jun 03, 18:21

  i know... still, it's a feel like it's all staged.. and i'm not one for these things..
  
  i'd rather raise a glass with my friends with a toast to my country at least, that'll be an honestly spontaneous thing
  
  

  Originally posted by skinnybeanie:

  no lah, when there in the stadium, the rejoicing is not choreographed... only the performers are choreographed.

• skinnybeanie

  6 Jun 03, 18:22

  gotta go liaoz
  
  bye ah bear and silly!
  nice chatting wif u two today.
  Looking forward to the Monday thread!
  
  Have a good weekend!!!
• the Bear

  6 Jun 03, 18:25

  enjoy yourself
  will send the 10 things again
  
  

  Originally posted by skinnybeanie:

  gotta go liaoz
  
  bye ah bear and silly!
  nice chatting wif u two today.
  Looking forward to the Monday thread!
  
  Have a good weekend!!!